Supplements to Member Lectures
GA 246
10 January 1909, Munich
Translated by Steiner Online Library
16. About Earthquakes
[ 1 ] Humans would have been mummified if the Earth’s fiery forces had not been tempered. It was not the process of lignification, but rather the Earth’s layers that caused this.
[ 2 ] Humans lost their power over fire and earth after Lemuria.
[ 3 ] The Atlantean Era: The forces of the sun, their influence on water and air, which is still [possible] today; through humanity’s higher powers, [also] on fire—this was taken away from humanity. The misuse of the forces of the sun and growth brought about the Atlantean Flood, as a result of evil influences, through the powers of Ahriman.
[ 4 ] Ahriman restored humanity’s influence over fire and earth, which had been lost following Lucifer’s influence [gap in the source text]
[ 5 ] Incorporating spiritual life into the human soul is the only remedy for these catastrophes.
[ 6 ] Q&A: Is Christ the only begotten Son?
[ 7 ] The Father's power extends from Saturn to Vulcan. The Christ-Sun extends to Venus. The Holy Spirit: from the Moon to Jupiter.
[ 8 ] The Gospel says that the Son was born of the One.
[ 9 ] Archangels: Sun; [Spirits of] Personality: Saturn; Spirits of Form: higher, already associated with Saturn; Powers; Dynamis.
[ 10 ] The Father-Spirit will still be at work in Vulkan.
[ 11 ] Ahriman = the force that isolates humans from the spiritual world.
[ 12 ] Without Christ's influence, people would gradually fall out of the evolutionary process.